Wireless Data Processing in a Connected Vehicle

1. A computer-implemented method for vehicle data processing, comprising: processing data requests from a communication device in a vehicle over a network using a first connection established between the communication device and an off-board server, wherein the processing includes transmitting data request packets over the network using the first connection to the off-board server and receiving data response packets over the network using the first connection from the off-board server; upon detecting a connectivity error between the communication device and the off-board server based on the first connection, detecting a second connection between the communication device and the off-board server, the second connection being different than the first connection; identifying a connection protocol type of the second connection; determining a predetermined period of time based on the connection protocol type of the second connection; and resuming processing of the data requests over the network via the second connection for the predetermined period of time.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein upon determining the connection protocol type of the second connection is a Wi-Fi communication protocol, resuming processing of the data requests includes resuming processing of the data requests until a connectivity error between the communication device and the off-board server based on the second connection is determined.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the connection protocol type of the second connection is different than a connection protocol type of the first connection.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the data requests from the communication device in the vehicle are speech data requests and a connection protocol type of the first connection is a cellular communication protocol, and wherein processing the data requests includes transmitting speech data packets based on the speech data requests to an off-board speech recognition server using the first connection.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 , wherein detecting the connectivity error includes detecting the connectivity error between the communication device and the off-board server indicating the first connection is disconnected.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 , including predicting a travel path for the vehicle based on location data received from the vehicle.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6 , including identifying one or more Wi-Fi access points along the travel path.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , wherein identifying the one or more Wi-Fi access points along the travel path is based in part on user preference data and stored access point information.

9. The computer-implemented of claim 7 , wherein resuming processing of the data requests for the predetermined period of time includes transmitting the speech data packets over the network to the off-board speech recognition server using the second connection and the one or more Wi-Fi access points.

10. The computer-implemented of claim 9 , wherein resuming processing of the data requests for the predetermined period of time includes storing the speech data packets at the off-board speech recognition server, wherein the speech data packets are streamed incrementally to the off-board speech recognition server using the second connection and the one or more Wi-Fi access points.

11. A system for vehicle data processing, comprising: a communication device operably connected for computer communication with a processor, a network interface controller, and a vehicle, wherein the network interface controller establishes a first connection to an off-board server, the first connection having a first connection protocol type, wherein the network interface controller executes transmission of data request packets to the off-board server using the first connection, the data request packets including components of a data request received in the vehicle by the communication device; wherein the network interface controller detects a connectivity error between the communication device and the off-board server and establishes a second connection between the communication device and the off-board server, wherein the communication device determines a second connection protocol type of the second connection and controls the network interface controller to resume transmission of the data request packets to the off-board server via the second connection for a predetermined period of time determined based on the second connection protocol type of the second connection, wherein the predetermined period of time is stored in the vehicle.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein upon the communication device determining the second connection protocol type as a Wi-Fi communication protocol, the network interface controller resumes transmission of the data request packets until the network interface controller determines a connectivity error between the communication device and the off-board server based on the second connection.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein the first connection protocol type is a cellular communication protocol and the second connection protocol type is a Wi-Fi communication protocol.

14. The system of claim 11 , wherein the data request packets are speech data request packets and the speech data request packets are components extracted from a speech data request received by the communication device from a vehicle system of the vehicle, and wherein the speech request packets are transmitted to an off-board speech recognition server.

15. The system of claim 11 , wherein upon identifying the second connection protocol type of the second connection is a Wi-Fi communication protocol, the network interface controller disables the first connection and establishes the second connection to the off-board server.

16. The system of claim 11 , further including a navigation system operably connected for computer communication to the communication device, wherein the navigation system identifies one or more Wi-Fi access points along a predicted travel path of the vehicle based on location data and stored access point data.